THE SPIRIT OF HER HISTORY, LITERATURE, SOCIAL AND NATIONAL ECONOMY; ILLUSTRATED BY REFERENCE TO HER PHYSICAL, MORAL AND POLITICAL STATISTICS, AND BY COMPARISON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. BY BISSET HAWKINS, M. D. OXON, F. R. S. Second Edition, FRANKFORT o. M. 1839. PRINTED FOR CHARLES JUGEL. AT THE GERMAN AND FOREIGN LIBRARY. 'carefully revived" the book it rote in his preface: EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THIS NEW EDITION. Previous to our offering this new,-augmented and corrected edition of Mr. Haw kins's work to the public, we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of rendering full justice to the admirable manner in which that gentleman has accomplished the very laborious task of presenting to the english reader a "Resumé" of the most interesting topics which Germany offers to foreigners generally. Although the work does not exhaust any of the questions which the author has touched upon, yet these sketches are so ably and instructively traced that any person desirous of information will fully obtain it on the subject of history, national character, literature, art, customs etc., of the country at large, as well as the constitution, statistics and topography of the various states of which it is composed. We therefore cannot pass a sufficient eulogy on its plan, and the care and perseverance of the author. We have endeavoured to complete and to correct his production as much as the haste |